The Impossible Conception

Available as a shareable image from my SGM download folders at:- https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B_3ClonPVorvOVRzWlViOWhvTFU

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Everyday Christmas

Finally got my Roxio Photosuite program working again. Really good for creating this type of image file.

As with all my other SGM image files a full sized version of this one can be freely downloaded and used from my SGM download folders here:- https://drive.google.com/…/fol…/0B_3ClonPVorvOVRzWlViOWhvTFU

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Will You Enter Here

Now that I don't have to try and make it behave itself as an eBook file I can re-release my PDF format eBook "Will You Enter here?" It has an extra poem and some new pictures as well as a new front cover and other updates. I am quite pleased with the way the front cover turned out having wanted to create something that conveys the essence of the anthology in visual imagery.

As with all my eBooks a copy of the PDF file is freely downloadable from my SGM eBook folder here:-

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B_3ClonPVorvY0Q2X1hBc1dGTUk

It contains the usual SGM permission notice and is a shareable SGM eBook.

As with all my anthologies the Title of the book is also the Tile of a poem that captures the essence of the anthology. This one is:-

WILL YOU ENTER HERE?

Will you enter here and spend time with me,

Between the sheets of the written word?

A private place of fresh-laundered poems.

Will you caress the flesh of a soul laid bare?

Feel the downy silk here,

And the scar tissue there?

Drink in the sight of a naked heart,

The rise and fall of its sensual beat.

Syncopate to the pattern of its complicated rhythms,

Shy not from an intimacy both rare and deep.

Let the sweet resonance join us a while,

Let's forget about form,

Let's forget about style.

For I seek not seduction with my intimate words,

But the pure warm joy of a sensual meeting

Of like hearts far apart

Briefly as one beating.

   D.J. Ludlow Copyright 2000.

I hope you enjoy it
D.J. Ludlow

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Small GIFTS Ministries Embraces The KISS Principle

It was quite thrilling to be able to create my own actual eBooks using a freely downloadable eBook creation package. Even the fact that updates meant that what worked one way before didn't work that way anymore did not dampen my enthusiasm. It just meant my next eBook was going to take a bit longer to produce as I tried to figure out the new way of doing things.

It wasn't until I realised how much time and energy it was taking to produce a single eBook, and how much time and energy I did not have that I finally asked myself - why am I creating eBook files when most eBook readers read PDF files just as easily? And PDF files are much, much, easier, simpler and quicker to create. What's more they are readable on just about everything - and are eminently printable.

In fact the main benefit of the eBook specific formats appears to be the ability to control their distribution to ensure pirate copies are not easy to produce, thereby ensuring payment for each copy. Not exactly a high priority for a ministry that encourages the free copying, distribution and sharing of material.

So for the moment my own SGM will be embracing the KISS principle (Keep It Simple Stupid) and producing my future eBooks in simple PDF file format for ease of download, distribution and use. Which means .......

The one I have been trying to get to behave itself for a while now, will be available very shortly.

Hope you like it.
D.J. Ludlow